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• Caution when stopping and starting an IIS application pool with appcmd

  Wednesday, May 12, 2010

  AppCmd IIS IIS 7.0

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  When starting and stopping IIS 7 application pools from command line with appcmd.exe, you should be aware of a behavior that can sometimes lead to unintended circumstances. To explain it, lets first review what happens when you stop an application pool...(read more)

• Brief History of Web Uploads

  Tuesday, May 4, 2010

  ASP.NET IIS LeanServer PHP Uploads

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  A brief history of HTTP upload support in the Microsoft web platform, and the challenges behind enabling reliable and scalable uploads for ASP.NET, ASP, and PHP applications....(read more)

• Enabling Fast, Reliable, and Super-Scalable Uploads in ASP.NET, ASP, and PHP applications

  Tuesday, May 4, 2010

  ASP.NET performance PHP ScaleUP Uploads

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  Uploads have always historically been a major pain point for web applications, due to poor performance, spotty reliability, and framework-specific limitations. As more and more websites rely on social networking, user generated content, and in general storing data in the cloud, the ability to support reliable and scalable uploads is rapidly becoming more critical than [...]